Fastener for upper-protectors



(No Modl.)

J. H. MOULTON.

FASTENER FOR UPPER PROTECTORS- Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

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Stairs STATES P TENT JAMES H. MOULTON, or WENHAM, MASsAeHUSETTS.

FASTENER FOR UPPER-PROTECTORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,875, dated January 2, 1883.

Application filed May 26,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. MoULroN,a citizen of the United States, residing at Wenham, in the county of Essex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and.

usetul Improvements in Fasteners for .Upper Protectors; and I do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying dra'wings.

This invention relates to improvements in fasteners for securing protectors to the top of boot or shoe uppers, so as to prevent the upper and lining from being soiled and defaced when the boot or shoe is in process of being made.

Upper-protectorfasteners have heretofore been made; but Such have generally been made ullll clamping devices projecting considerably beyond the upper edge of-the protector, and thus interfering seriously with the free manipulation of the shoe when in process of construction, and such clamping devices heretofore made required the use of screw-drivers or equivalenttools to attach and detach them from the protector and upper. Anotherobjection to those heretofore made is that they have generally been provided with sharp teetl1,which were very liable to injure and tear the lining of the boot or shoe. All these objections l have sought to overcome in the carrying out of my improved fastener, which is constructed as follows, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a boot or shoe upper with a protector secured in place by means of my improved fasteners. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of one of my improved fasteners, and Fig. 3 represents a central longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts whert-ver they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

a represents a boot or shoe upper, and n represents a cord or scam in its upper edge, as usual.

1) represents an ordinary detachable pocket upper-protector.

0 represents my improved fastener, which is made of one single piece of metal bent, as

shown in Figs. 2 and 3, to form an eye, 0, at top,to receive the cord or seam a of the upper a. when the'clasp is put in place to hold the protector to the upper. Just below the eye 0 the fastener is made with inwardly-projecting lips or projections c c, as shown, so as to take hold of the protector and the shoe-upper underneath the cord or seam a.

c .c are the spring shanks of the fastener, as shown, one (or both) of which is provided at or near its lower end with an inwardly-projecting lip, 0', (shown in Figs. 2 and 3,) so as. to allow of a firm hold of the improved fastener in its lower end as well as in its upper end.

It will be seen that this my improved fastener is very small and light, and that it projects very little above the top of the boot or shoe upper, and that it may easily be secured in place, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, simply by eXpandingth-e spriug-shanks c c by the fingers of the operator, or by means of a suitable threader or similar tool that may be handy, and then pushing it downward over the outside of the protector 1) far enough to allow the seam or cord a of the upper to rest within the eye 0 of the fastener, and when in such a position, if released, it will nip the protector and upper in two places-viz., just beneath the cord or seam a and at or near the lower extremity of the spring-shanks c c by the lip or lips c, as shown.

The fastener is easily removed by expanding-the spring-shanks c c by hand or otherwise and drawing it off the protector and upper.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is The herein-described fastener G for boot or shoe upper protectors, made of a single piece of metal, with an eye, 0, in its upper end, inwardly-projecting lips c 0 below the eye 0, spring-shanks c" c, with lower projection or projections, c, as and for the purpose set 

